Marco Tapia
August 17, 2009
IT Managed Services - when and why?
IT Managed and Support Services - is the practice of transferring day-to-day related IT management responsibility as a strategic method for improved operations and focus on core business. Typically, the customer remains accountable for the functional ...
August 11, 2009
Top 10 Technologies replacing the need for extra labour - Jobless recovery
A lot has been said about the economic recovery after the GFC. They ("the experts") talk about a jobless recovery, i.e. a recovery without extra people or a recovery that may delay for a while the employment of people and hence unemployment will rema ...
July 27, 2009
The NBN - Australian National Broadband Network – It will be fantastic
The NBN planned by the Australian Government will just be a fantastic piece of infrastructure that will enhance business, education, entertainment, health, communications, security, etc. It will be a fundamental underlying infrastructure that will gr ...
in productivity
July 20, 2009
Unemployed CIO (IT Manager)? - I can see a great future ahead of you...
Unemployed CIO (IT Manager)? - I can see a great future ahead of you… Top skills that CIOs/IT Managers need to acquire. There is no secret that right now that CIO's employment opportunities are in very short supply. In Sydney, there was ONE CIO job a ...
June 30, 2009
Recruiting permanent/full time IT staff may not be the way to go if your core business is not IT.
Is Information Technology (IT) your core business? The reason why most users bypass or hate the internal IT department is because they are always too busy to do what they are supposed to do i.e. service their customers. Why they are so busy? Mainly b ...
June 24, 2009
Please keep sending IT work off shore…. I need a new car!
It's fascinating to see company after company send IT work off shore in search of "cost savings" that many times result in the opposite. I have been in IT Management roles for 23 years and for the last 7 running my IT services firm. I talk to many IT ...